#36 – July – “Ontherocks” of Geosciblog-science hosts. The question is: “What past mineral/fossil locality have you regretted not collecting more specimens from?”

Let’s hear from you, especially if you haven’t hosted before, or if you haven’t participated in a while. Come up with a theme, and then put it out there on your blog (leave a link here), and see what sort of cool stuff you inspire in your geoblogging peers. Who’s in? What are your proposals? Leave a note in the comments on this post — I’ll update the post with volunteer hosts and topics as they come in.

By the way, do you want to go by “ontherocks” or by your real name? (If one clicks through your blog to your profile, one can follow links to your GPC homepage, FYI: not sure how much of a priority anonymity is.)

It’s up to you — if you want to publish the Wedge on, say, July 15, then you should probably make the deadline a few days before that. That gives you a couple of days to compile the thing, and also a bit of “flex time” when the latecomers can come rolling in.

I am ready, so please send your submissions to the above link. I would prefer to receive submissions by July 16 or so.

The subject is “what we regret leaving behind.” In other words, in your geo-pasts, what speciments – fossils, minerals, rocks, even photographs – from a particular site of interest do you regret “not getting enough of”?

Considering the not-so-successful summer I’ve had in terms of research, here’s a topic idea:

When has your research/work NOT gone well – and what did you do to recover from it? Not so much a Wedge about horror stories as one about how to get past rough spots in your work. (Rethinking an approach, changing it entirely, etc.)